Wednesday, October 29, 2014

On Septenber 11, 2014, those
who attended the game said it was extremely emotional to see the entire
bowl of the
stadium turn red, white and blue. It took 90 workers two weeks to get
all of the colored card boards mounted under each seat. Each piece of
card board had eye slits in them so the fans could hold up the colored
sheet and still see through the eye slits. Every seat had to have the
proper card, with no mistakes, to make this happen.

Lambeau FieldThis is what ESPN
failed to show you Monday night,Apparently, they thought their commercials were more important than showing this scene for about 5 seconds.

Doctors Without Scruples

And why are soldiers being quarantined

By

James Taranto

October 29, 2014

Kaci Hickox, the nurse who was briefly quarantined at a Newark, N.J.,
hospital after flying into the state en route from Ebola-ravaged Sierra
Leone, now says she won’t comply with the three-week home-quarantine
requirements in her home state of Maine. “She doesn’t want to agree to
continue to be confined to a residence beyond the two days,” her New
York-based lawyer, Steven Hyman, tells the Bangor Daily News.The Associated Press quotes Hyman as saying: “She’s a very good person who did very good work and deserves to be honored, not detained, for it.”
At least two other medical professionals have acted as if public-health rules don’t apply to them. The New York Post
reports that physician Craig Spencer—like Hickox a volunteer for
Doctors Without Borders, in his case in Guinea—“lied to authorities
about his travels around the city . . ., law-enforcement sources said”:

Spencer
at first told officials that he isolated himself in his Harlem
apartment—and didn’t admit he rode the subways, dined out and went
bowling until cops looked at his MetroCard the sources said.

“He
told the authorities that he self-quarantined. Detectives then reviewed
his credit-card statement and MetroCard and found that he went over
here, over there, up and down and all around,” a source said.

And
let’s not forget Nancy Snyderman, a Princeton, N.J., physician who
entered voluntary quarantine after a fellow traveler to Liberia was
diagnosed with Ebola. On Oct. 9 the Planet Princeton
website reported that “Snyderman allegedly was seen sitting in her car
outside of the Peasant Grill in Hopewell Boro this afternoon. A reader
reported that a man who was with her got out of the car and went inside
the restaurant to pick up a take-out order. Another man was in the back
seat of her black Mercedes. Snyderman had sunglasses on and had her hair
pulled back, the reader said.”
The state issued a mandatory quarantine order, and on Oct. 13
Snyderman “issued an apology to the public . . . but did not indicate
that she had violated the voluntary confinement agreement . . . or take
personal responsibility for the violation.”
At least Doctors Without Borders is off the hook for Snyderman. She works for NBC as chief medical correspondent.

ENLARGE

Secretary Hagel
Associated Press

Meanwhile, the Defense Department
has announced that all U.S. servicemen “returning from areas affected
by Ebola in West Africa” will be subjected to “a 21-day monitoring
period.” As noted here yesterday,
that has already been the de facto policy. The Pentagon press release
doesn’t use the word “quarantine,” but every media report we’ve seen
does.
The statement quotes a Pentagon spokesman as saying
Secretary Chuck Hagel “believes these initial steps are prudent, given
the large number of military personnel transiting from their home base
and West Africa and the unique logistical demands and impact this
deployment has on the force.” It’s hard to disagree, though one might
add: and the irresponsible, if not downright dishonest, behavior of
various civilian medics.
But of course Hagel’s announcement means
that the Obama administration has two directly opposite policies on
Americans returning from Ebola lands: quarantine for those in uniform,
laissez-faire for civilians. And “laissez-faire” doesn’t quite capture
it: The administration not only is not imposing a quarantine on
civilians but is actively pressuring states to refrain from doing so.
Hickox was released after—and possibly because of—that campaign.
What
accounts for the double standard? Or, as a reporter put it to President
Obama yesterday: “Are you concerned, sir, that there might be some
confusion between the quarantine rules used by the military and used by
health care workers and by some states?”
Let’s go through the president’s response point by point.“Well, the military is a different situation, obviously, because they are, first of all, not treating patients.”
According to the Washington Post,
some of them will “test samples for presence of the virus,” but if they
are not going to have direct contact with Ebola sufferers, that would
seem to militate against quarantining them upon return.“Second
of all, they are not there voluntarily, it’s part of their mission
that’s been assigned to them by their commanders and ultimately by me,
the commander in chief.”
Perhaps the president is unaware
that the U.S. does not have military conscription. Which we suppose
would be understandable, since Obama was 11 when the last draftee
reported for duty.“So we don’t expect to have similar rules
for our military as we do for civilians. They are already, by
definition, if they’re in the military, under more circumscribed
conditions.”
Press secretary Josh Earnest had developed that argument further at a briefing two hours earlier:

There
are a wide range of sacrifices that our men and women in uniform make
for the sake of efficiency and for the sake of uniformity and for the
success of our military.

So to take a more
pedestrian example than the medical one that we’re talking about, there
might be some members of the military who think that the haircut that’s
required may not be their best, but that’s a haircut that they get every
couple of weeks because it is in the best interest of their unit and it
maintains unit cohesion.

We’ll return to the point, but
let’s note here that taking servicemen out of circulation for three
weeks obviously does not promote efficiency, and that instituting a
policy that applies only to the relatively small number of servicemen
stationed in Ebola lands obviously does not promote uniformity. That
leaves only the catchall “success of our military” category to justify
the quarantine.
Back to Obama:“When we have
volunteers who are taking time out from their families, from their loved
ones and so forth, to go over there because they have a very particular
expertise to tackle a very difficult job, we want to make sure that
when they come back that we are prudent, that we are making sure that
they are not at risk themselves or at risk of spreading the
disease . . .”
It sounds here as if the president is
continuing his justification of the military quarantine, but it turns
out the “volunteers” he means here are the Doctors Without Borders
types, who, he said in his prepared statement “are doing God’s work over
there.” (Maybe, but didn’t God say something about bearing false
witness?) The sentence continues: “. . . but we don’t want
to do things that aren’t based on science and best practices. Because if
we do, then we’re just putting another barrier on somebody who’s
already doing really important work on our behalf. And that’s not
something that I think any of us should want to see happen.”
All
of which leaves unanswered the central question: If a policy of
quarantining returning personnel runs counter to “science and best
practices,” how does it promote, in Earnest’s phrase, “the success of
our military”?
Absent a satisfactory answer to that question, the
answer to the question “Why are you quarantining servicemen?” seems to
boil down to: “Because we can.” Because it is in the nature of military
service to demand a considerable sacrifice of personal freedom. But if
the administration viewed that as sufficient justification, it would not have pressed for legislation abolishing restrictions on service by homosexuals.
Anyway, we know of no one who denies that Hagel had the authority to
establish the quarantine policy, absent a contrary order from the
commander in chief. But the White House also concedes that states have
the authority to order quarantines for civilians.
At his Monday press briefing, Josh Earnest
answered a reporter’s question about the absence of “an overarching
federal policy that rules” by saying this: “You can sort of take this up
with James Madison, right? We have a federal system in this country in
which states are given significant authority for governing their
constituents. That is certainly true when it comes to public safety and
public health.”
What is at issue, then, is the administration’s
purely discretionary decisions to order quarantines for servicemen and
lean on states not to order them for civilians—a contradiction with no
obvious basis, and no basis the World’s Greatest Orator and his
spokesman have managed to articulate, in philosophy, law or science.
Either
servicemen are being subjected to burdens with no basis in “science or
best practices,” or the administration is risking public health by
prioritizing the personal comfort of civilian medical workers. Why in
the world are they doing this?
Odd as it to say about this
administration—especially with an election less than a week away—it’s
hard to imagine the motive is political. CBS News
reports that 80% of respondents in a new poll “think U.S. citizens and
legal residents returning from West Africa should be quarantined upon
their arrival in the U.S. until it is certain they don’t have Ebola”;
just 17% disagree. (Though to be sure, that 17% is almost double the
proportion describing themselves in another recent poll as “enthusiastic” about Obama.)
Let
us suggest two practical distinctions, either or both of which may
explain the disjunction in policy. The first is that forestalling the
military quarantine order would have required Obama to overrule a
recommendation of the Joint Chiefs of Staff—that is to say, to make a
decision. Pressuring the governors, by contrast, involves only
behind-the-scenes kibitzing and public bloviation.
The second is
snobbery. Recall that quote from Nurse Hickox’s lawyer: “She’s a very
good person.” She and others like her, according to the president, are
doing God’s work, and—in pointed if inaccurate contrast to military
servicemen—are “experts.” The logic would go something like this: You can’t quarantine her. She’s one of us.

Iranian Woman Fights Off a Rapist, But She’s the One Who Receives the Unimaginably Horrific Sentence

In Iran, a woman has received the worst possible sentence after stabbing a man who tried to rape her.
On Saturday, 27-year-old Reyhaneh Jabbari was hung at dawn for what Iranian officials concluded was “premeditated murder.” Amnesty International said the sentence is another “bloody stain” on Iran’s human rights record.
The event that led to Jabbari’s execution took place in 2007. A man
approached Jabbari in a cafe who happened to be an Iranian intelligence
agent. He told her that he wanted to discuss business with her at his
office.
However, when Jabbari arrived the man had no intention to talk
business. He tried to drug and rape her. Fearing for her life, Jabbari
grabbed a pocketknife and stabbed the man.
What any American court would likely dismiss as self-defense, an Iranian court declared cold-blooded murder.
Before her hanging, Jabbari was given a chance to make one last call
to her mother Sholeh, who spent years trying to secure her daughter’s
release. Here are some of Jabbari’s final words:

The world allowed me to live for 19 years.
That ominous night it was I that should have been killed. My body would
have been thrown in some corner of the city, and after a few days, the
police would have taken you to the coroner’s office to identify my body
and there you would also learn that I had been raped as well. The
murderer would have never been found since we don’t have their wealth
and their power. You taught me that one comes to this world to gain an
experience and learn a lesson and with each birth a responsibility is
put on one’s shoulder. I learned that sometimes one has to fight.But I was charged with being indifferent in face of a
crime. You see, I didn’t even kill the mosquitoes and I threw away the
cockroaches by taking them by their antennas. Now I have become a
premeditated murderer. Dear soft-hearted Sholeh, in the other world it is you
and me who are the accusers and others who are the accused. Let’s see
what God wants. I wanted to embrace you until I die. I love you.

Jabbari’s heartbreaking story reminds us of what a real ‘war on women’ looks like. May she “Rest in Peace.”

Monday, October 27, 2014

Slaves

Jack Wheeler is a brilliant man who was the author of Reagan's
strategy to break the back of the Soviet Union

with the star wars race and expose their inner weakness. For years
he wrote a weekly intelligence update that was

extremely interesting and well-structured and informative. He
consults(ed) with several mega corporations on global

trends and the future, etc. He is in semi-retirement now. He is a
true patriot with a no-nonsense approach to everything.

He is also a somewhat well-known mountain climber and adventurer.

The first paragraph of Mr. Wheeler's statement is perfect.

Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler:

The O-man, Barack Hussein Obama, is an eloquently tailored empty
suit. No resume, no accomplishments, no experience,

no original ideas, no understanding of how the economy works, no
understanding of how the world works, no balls,

nothing but abstract, empty rhetoric devoid of real substance.

He has no real identity. He is half-white, which he rejects. The
rest of him is mostly Arab, which he hides but is disclosed by his non-African
Arabic surname and his Arabic first and middle names as a way to triply
proclaim his Arabic parentage to people in Kenya . Only a small part of him is
African Black from his Luo grandmother, which he pretends he is exclusively.

What he isn't, not a genetic drop of, is 'African-American,' the
descendant of enslaved Africans brought to America chained in slave ships. He
hasn't a single ancestor who was a slave. Instead, his Arab ancestors were
slave owners. Slave-trading was the main Arab business in East Africa for
centuries until the British ended it.

Let that sink in: Obama is not the descendant of slaves, he is the
descendant of slave owners.Thus he makes the perfect Liberal Messiah.

It's something Hillary doesn't understand - how some complete
neophyte came out of the blue and stole the Dem nomination from her. Obamamania
is beyond politics and reason. It is a true religious cult, whose adherents
reject Christianity yet still believe in Original Sin, transferring it from the
evil of being human to the evil of being white.

Thus Obama has become the white liberals' Christ, offering
absolution from the Sin of Being White. There is no reason or logic behind it,
no faults or flaws of his can diminish it, no arguments Hillary could make of
any kind can be effective against it. The absurdity of Hypocrisy Clothed In
Human Flesh being their Savior is all the more cause for liberals to worship
him: Credo quia absurdum, I believe it because it is absurd.

Thank heavens that the voting majority of Americans remain
Christian and are in no desperate need of a phony savior.

He is ridiculous and should not be taken seriously by any thinking
American. And yet he got
elected, not once but twice. Thanks to those that did not think it was
important to vote for freedom and those that were willing to give up their
freedoms for entitlements.

Remember you don't have to be on a southern plantation to be a
slave, if you are dependent on government entitlements you just have a
different slave owner.

Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Steyn on America

Thomas Eric Duncan has the distinction of being America's Patient
Zero - the first but not the last person to develop Ebola symptoms in
the United States.
Is he a US citizen? No, he's Liberian.
Is he a resident of the United States? No, he landed at Washington's
Dulles Airport on September 20th, in order to visit his sister and
having quit his job in Monrovia a few weeks earlier.
So he's a single unemployed man with relatives in the US and no
compelling reason to return to his native land. That alone is supposed
to be cause for immigration scrutiny.
In addition, visitors from Liberia have the fifth highest "visa overstay rate" in the United States. That's to say, they understand very clearly that all that matters is getting in. Once you're in, they'll never get you out.
And, of course, Liberia is one of the hottest spots of Ebola's West
African "hot zone". It's been all over the front pages, except
apparently in The US Customs & Border Protection Staff Newsletter, where it rated a solitary "News In Brief" item at the foot of page 37.
Just to give you an example of how hard-assed the boneheads of America's immigration bureaucracy can be when they want to:
The legendary Gord Sinclair, longtime news director of CJAD in
Montreal, had a ski place near Jay in northern Vermont, and he invited
his engineer on the show to come down and visit him. "What's the purpose
of your visit?" asked the agent at the small rural border post.
"Oh, just a relaxing weekend at my boss' place," said Gord's
colleague affably, and then chortled, "although I don't know if it'll be
that relaxing. He'll probably have me out in the yard chopping wood all day."
So the immigration agent refused him entry on the grounds that he would be working illegally in the United States.
They all had a good laugh about that back on the air on Monday, but
it took forever to straighten out. A single man with contacts in the
United States: He says he's coming for the weekend, but we all
know any Montrealer would willingly trade a job at Quebec's Number One
anglo radio station for casual yard work in Vermont, right?
And yet the unemployed guy from an Ebola hot zone gets in.
Every day CBP agents pull stuff like that weekend-in-Vermont thing,
screwing over perfectly obviously law-abiding persons - tourists,
businessmen, legal residents and, indeed, citizens.
But the Ebola guy gets in.
What is the priority of America's deranged border regime right now? As I wrote two months ago:

This weekend [Campbell Webster] was returning to New
Hampshire from a competition in Canada, which is how a newspaper story
comes to open with a sentence never before written in the history of the
English language:
'BAGPIPERS have expressed their fear over a new law which led to two
US teenagers having their pipes seized by border control staff at the
weekend.'They can chisel that on the tombstone of the republic. On the
northern border, bagpipers are "expressing their fear", while on the
southern border gangbangers have no fear and stroll through the express
check-in.

As do Ebola-bearing Liberians at Dulles. US border security devotes more time and resources to Campbell Webster of Concord bringing in a bagpipe than to Thomas Duncan of Monrovia bringing in Ebola.
Come to that, US border security devotes more time and resources to
my kid bringing in a Kinder chocolate egg from Canada than to Thomas
Duncan bringing in Ebola. Speaking of which, I recount the Great Kinder
Egg Showdown in my new book, which comes out this month. You can pre-order now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million, Indigo-Chapters in Canada, and other retailers.
If you're wondering why the seizure of my kids' chocolate eggs is in
the same book as war and terrorism and all the big-boy stuff, the answer
is it's part of the same story. To function, institutions have to be
able to prioritize - even big, bloated, money-no-object
SWAT-teams-for-every-penpusher institutions like the US Government. You
can't crack down on Kinder eggs, bagpipes and Ebola: At a certain point,
you have to choose. My line with the Homeland Security guys is a simple
one: every 20 minutes you spend on me, or my kids' chocolate eggs, or
Cameron Webster's bagpipe is 20 minutes you're not spending on the guy
with Ebola, or Tamerlan Tsarnaev. The price of bagpipe scrutiny is a big
hole blown in the lives of American families attending the Boston
Marathon, or a bunch of schoolkids in Dallas having to be quarantined
for a vicious, ravaging disease with a high fatality rate.
But, of course, giving additional attention to West African visitors would be racist. Not like terrorizing Scotsmen over their bagpipes.
Meanwhile, the Department of Homeland Security expands its curious priorities
from raiding Boston strip clubs for selling knock-off Red Sox T-shirts
to raiding private homes to seize vintage cars that don't meet EPA
standards. And yet more emission creep:

Homeland Security Is Now Helping To Protect Communities From The Effects Of Climate Change

Big Government is, inevitably, stupid government. The bigger it gets
the more it will focus on trivia, and the less it will even be able to
discern the few things it should be doing. But something more
pathological is going on here: "Homeland Security" is more interested in
controlling law-abiding Americans than protecting them.from Steyn on America, October 4, 2014

The White House celebrated it’s first-ever Eid al-Adha this week, a Muslim holiday celebrating the end of the Hajj, the holy pilgrimage to Mecca:

TODAY’S ZAMAN
– The White House hosted an event to celebrate Eid al-Adha on Tuesday
for the first time ever with the sponsorship of the Rumi Forum, an
international organization established by Turks living in Washington,
D.C., to foster intercultural dialogue.
The White House traditionally hosts an iftar (fast-breaking) dinner
every year for representatives of Muslim communities in the United
States, but Tuesday’s event was the first time that they have hosted a
celebratory event for Eid al-Adha, upon the suggestion of Rumi Forum.
The opening speech of the event was made by White House Public Relations
Office Deputy Director Ashley Allison and Rumi Forum President Emre
Çelik.
The forum, of which Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen is the honorary chairman, provided food for the event.
Speaking to Today’s Zaman, Çelik said Rumi Forum came up with the
idea to host a celebratory event for Eid al-Adha with the attendance of
representatives from different religions. The event was attended by
about 60 people from various interfaith organizations in Washington,
including representatives from Christian and Jewish organizations in the
US, as well as Muslims.

For Obama to be a Christian, his White House sure does celebrate a lot of Muslim Holidays.
John Kerry made remarks at this event and you can read his full remarks here. But here is what he said that created controversy in Israel:

“I think that it is more critical than ever that we be
fighting for peace, and I think it is more necessary than ever… As I
went around and met with people in the course of our discussions about
the ISIL (Islamic State) coalition, the truth is we – there wasn’t a
leader I met with in the region who didn’t raise with me spontaneously
the need to try to get peace between Israel and the Palestinians,
because it was a cause of recruitment and of street anger and agitation
that they felt.”

This caused Naftali Bennett to slam those remarks, suggesting a link
between the Israel-Palestinian peace process and recruitment for ISIS:

Economy Minister Naftali Bennett slammed US Secretary of
State John Kerry on Friday for comments the top American diplomat made,
indicating that the unresolved conflict between the Israelis and
Palestinians is contributing to gain made by the Islamic State group.
“Asserting that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict reinforces ISIS, gives a boost to global terrorism,” Bennett charged.
“It turns out that even when a British Muslim beheads a British
Christian, there will always be those who blame the Jews,” Bennett said
in reference to videos of recent decapitations of Western captives by an
Islamic State member who speaks with an English accent.
He added that there is no justification for terrorism and that Israeli is fighting against the phenomenon.

Monday, October 6, 2014

Obama Sends ‘Thank You’ to Beheader’s Oklahoma Mosque

Monday, October 6, 2014

And they wonder why people think Obama is a Muslim.
Check it out: The White House has reportedly sent a top Department of Homeland
Security (DHS) official to the Islamic Society of Greater Oklahoma City
(ISGOC) to “present a special thank you to the Muslim congregation,”
Oklahoma’s KFOR reports.The beheader’s mosque,
the Islamic Society of Greater Oklahoma City, was founded by a sibling
of a U.S.-designated Hamas terrorist, and in the past has welcomed an
Imam who was a close confidant to al-Qaeda mastermind Anwar al-Awlaki.David L. Myers, who serves as director of the DHS Center for Faith-based & Neighborhood Partnerships, was tasked with presenting a personal message from President
Barack Obama. It read, “Your service is a powerful example of the
powerful roots of the Abrahamic faiths and how our communities can come
together with shared peace with dignity and a sense of justice.”Two days before proud ISGOC congregation member Alton Nolen (AKA
Jahkeem Yisrael) ruthlessly beheaded an innocent woman while reportedly
shouting Islamic slogans, ISGOC Imam Imad Enchassi made unproven
claims about multiple death threats, specifically beheadings, against
Muslims and their children in Oklahoma. Breitbart News investigated
Oklahoma state hate crime databases and found no record of widespread
anti-Muslim persecution in the state. Over the past five years, a total
of seven anti-Islamic hate crimes have been documented in the state of
Oklahoma.

Friday, October 3, 2014

The photos are the latest in a collection of shots featuring babies and young children posing with weapons (Picture: Twitter)
A photo showing a baby holding an AK-47 and lying on an Isis flag has
emerged in what is the latest in a series of disturbing images to be
released by the Islamist terror group.

Italian Congress Shows the Double Face of Organ Transplantation

Professor
Franco Citterio, President of the Italian Society of Organ
Transplantation, during the congress held in Siena, Italy. (Konstantin
Skabrin/Epoch Times)

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ROME—The congress of the Italian Society of Organ Transplantation
(SITO) concluded in Siena, Italy, end September. Doctors and
professional workers shared with the public the reality of a sensitive
issue. From one side, Italy is one of the most advanced medical
countries in the world, from another side, there is still poor
information about the illegal organs’ market, which flourishes in some
regions of the world.
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Speakers who took turns on stage showed the same desire: give an
organ to about 9,000 patients on the Italian waiting list. “We could do
more,” said Professor Franco Citterio, SITO President, during an
interview with Epoch Times. “We see that when people are informed, the
number of donations increases.”
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Professor Citterio recalled the 20th anniversary of Nicholas Green’s
death – the 7 year old American boy killed by mistake by the Mafia in
southern Italy. His parents’ altruistic decision to donate his organs,
saving thus seven people, was widely publicized by media. The donation
figures increased dramatically in Italy from that day, which reached
2,841 transplants in 2013.
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Besides the selfless act of the Green’s family, the congress exposed a
less selfless reality: organ traffic ruled by countries in which
executed prisoners, and prisoners of conscience are used as a ‘bank’ for
selling their organs on the local or international market.
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According to SITO, there are at least 10,000 illegal transplants each
year with astonishing prices: in China – where the regime controls
hospitals and medical staff – a kidney can be worth 70,000 dollars. The
removal of organs from death row inmates is a practice that goes against
the ethical medical standards. In October 2012, the World Medical Association has
expressly ruled that “In jurisdictions where the death penalty is
practised, executed prisoners cannot be considered as organ and/or
tissue donors.”
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“The Chinese situation is known to us,”Professor Citterio said,
“[the country] has been sanctioned by the International Society of
Transplantation. The Chinese government made some statements that this
would never happen again. In fact, it seems that this is not the case,
and that it continues to be implemented.”
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In November 2013, China signed the Hangzhou resolution, which
received praise of the international medical community, declaring to end
the organ harvesting from executed prisoners. Only a few months later
though, in March 2014, Chinese officials stated that China will continue
to use organs from prisoners, and that the bodies will be accounted
into a new computerized system for organs.
“In China, donors are killed,” said Doctor Katerina Angelakopoulou, spokesperson of the Italian DAFOH
(Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting). This association aims at
protecting medical ethics, and was founded in 2007. DAFOH had a stand
at the congress.
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DAFOH is leading an international campaign against the forced organ
harvesting in China. Some doctors have decided to establish the
organization after the 2006 investigation by human rights lawyer David
Matas, and former Canadian Secretary of State David Kilgour. They
published a document – “Bloody Harvest”
– where they stated, that at least 41,500 forced organs have been
harvested between 2000 and 2005, from living Falun Gong practitioners, a
meditative discipline persecuted by the Chinese regime.
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“I believe the international community must strongly condemn and
exert pressure against this activity,” Franco Citterio suggested, adding
that in Italy there is an average waiting list of two years for a
kidney, in China it can be around 1 to 4 weeks.
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In March 2013, the Human Rights Committee of the Italian Senate
approved a resolution against forced organ harvesting in China. Then, a
coalition of Italian MPs was launched in about two months. “There are a
dozen of MPs who have the desire to cooperate at an international level,
so to stop this unethical practice in China,” said Doctor
Angelakopoulou.

‘Killed to Order’ Documentary on China’s Organ Tourism Featured at UCLA Film Festival

Falun
Dafa practitioners are the only prison population who are medically
profiled while in detention. (Robin Kemker/The Epoch Times)

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“Killed to Order,” a documentary about organ tourism and illicit
organ procurement in China, was presented at the Awareness Film Festival
at the UCLA Department of Film, Television and Digital Media’s James
Bridges Theater on Sept. 11.
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The 10-minute film, written and directed by Kathryn Shakespear, was
produced and filmed in Australia. It fully engaged the audience,
especially the buildup toward the end.
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The film begins with a woman telling her elderly father that she is
expecting a baby–his first grandchild. Her father seems happy but
cautious in his response, saying he hopes he will live to see his
grandchild grow up as he was just diagnosed with a fatal kidney disease
and is trying to locate a kidney transplant.
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During his research the man discovers that China has extensive organ
transplant capabilities and can provide transplants to replace his
failing kidneys.
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Later, his daughter calls him to tell him that in China people are
killed on demand to provide organs for foreign transplant patients.
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As the film progresses towards the last scene, the man is in a cab, traveling to the airport.
I won’t give away the ending in case you have the chance to watch this worthy short documentary.
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China’s Secret Organ Source

Large numbers of people, who are in desperate need of organ
transplants, from the United States and other countries, have flocked to
China every year where hospitals have promised short waiting times and
an abundance of fresh, healthy organs.
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Since 2006, several independent investigators have reported research
results saying that Chinese military hospitals, courts,
labor-reeducation camps, and police have been involved in harvesting and
selling organs from prisoners for profit. In addition, most of the
prisoners are not criminals, but prisoners of conscience, mainly captive
Falun Gong practitioners, a spiritual group that has been persecuted in
China since 1999.
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In 2006, an investigation was conducted by David Kilgour, a former
Canadian Secretary of State (Asia-Pacific), and David Matas, a prominent
human rights lawyer. Their report
and book, Bloody Harvest,
states, “We have come to the regrettable conclusion that the allegations
are true. We believe that there has been and continues today to be
large scale organ seizures from unwilling Falun Gong practitioners.”
.

Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting (DAFOH), a non-profit
organization founded by medical doctors in 2007, state on their website
www.dafoh.org : “Forced organ harvesting has enabled the expansion of a
commercial organ industry in China… The onset of the persecution of
Falun Gong in 1999 coincides with the exponential growth of the
transplant industry in China… Without a public organ donation program,
wait times for transplant organs are implausibly short. Average wait
times in China are 1 to 4 weeks.”
.

Sky TV Investigation

.

Also in 2006, Sky TV aired a report that confirmed important claims
of live organ harvesting from prisoners in China saying: organs for
transplantation are very plentiful in China; they are available on
demand; the organs are supplied from prisoners; prisoners are killed
after they are found to match a patient who is awaiting a donor organ.
.

Sky TV reporter Dominic Waghorn, and at least one other staff member
from Sky TV, visited the Orient Organ Transplantation Center in Beijing
with a hidden camera, posing as someone whose father needed a liver.
.

Waghorn began his report by noting that in China, unlike the West,
there is “a seemingly endless supply of livers, the reasons why are
deeply sinister.”
.

The nurse who welcomed him at the hospital cheerfully explained that
their hospital could get organs “the fastest” because it has the “best
connections.”
.

Waghorn explained that the hospital publicly admitted its links to China’s paramilitary police.

International Initiatives

Since 2006, several UN Special Rapporteurs have asked China’s
government for an explanation about organ pillaging from live Falun Gong
practitioners, but it provided no meaningful answers, simply denying
the charges.
.

In December 2006, Australian transplant hospitals were the first to restrict training of surgeons from China.
.

In March 2008, Israel wrote an “Organ Transplant Law,” bringing
transplant tourism and organ between Israel and China to a complete
halt.
.

In September 2012, the U.S. Congress held a hearing on “Organ
Harvesting of Religious and Political Dissidents by the CCP,” condemning
the practice.
.

In June 2013, U.S. Congressional representatives introduced H.Res.
281, calling on China “to immediately stop the practice of organ
harvesting from its prisoners, particularly from Falun Gong prisoners of
conscience and members of other groups.”
.

In November 2013, DAFOH presented a petition to the UN High
Commissioner for Human Rights signed by 1.5 million people from over 50
countries, calling for an end to China’s forced organ harvesting.
.

In December 2013, the European Parliament passed a resolution against
China’s unethical organ procurement, calling for extensive action to
end the practice.
.

In April 2014, the Transplantation Society and the Declaration of
Istanbul Custodian Group sent an open letter to Xi Jinping concerning
“corrupt practices of doctors and officials who obtain organs from
executed prisoners illegally for sale to wealthy foreign patients from
around the world.”
.

Wednesday, October 1, 2014

CHURCHILL ON ISLAMWikipedia - The River War).The
attached short speech from Winston Churchill, was delivered by him in
1899 when he was a young soldier and journalist. It probably sets out
the current views of many, but expresses in the wonderful Churchillian
turn of phrase and use of the English language, of which he was a past
master. Sir Winston Churchill was, without doubt, one of the greatest
men of the late 19th and 20th centuries.He
was a brave young soldier, a brilliant journalist, an extraordinary
politician and statesman, a great war leader and British Prime Minister,
to whom the Western world must be forever in his debt. He was a
prophet in his own time. He died on 24th January 1965, at the grand old
age of 90 and, after a lifetime of service to his country, was accorded
a State funeral.HERE IS THE SPEECH:"How
dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries!
Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as
hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The
effects are apparent in many countries, improvident habits, slovenly
systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of
property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.A
degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement, the
next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law
every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a
child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction ofslavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.Individual
Muslims may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion
paralyses the social development of those who follow it.No
stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being
moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has
already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at
every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong
arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the
civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of
ancient Rome ."Sir Winston Churchill; (Source: The River War, first edition, Vol II, pages 248-250 London).Churchill saw it coming......

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